The RUC Chief Constable, Ronnie Flanagan, stayed in Gavin O'Reilly's Dalkey pad when he came to Dublin for the rugby international against South Africa.
Ronnie's nephew, Jim Flanagan, is deputy editor of the Belfast Telegraph, which Independent News and Media now owns. We hear the senior people are being love-bombed by Tony O'Reilly. Once their idea of a perk was a few drinks at Christmas. Now they get taken to see Chryss Goulandris's sumptuous stud farm in Normandy.